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Testimony of Hela (Feltz) Reznik, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1925 regarding her experiences in the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia

Testimony

Prewar childhood; antisemitism; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel; outbreak of the war; German occupation; burning of houses; deportation to the Parschnitz labor camp, Czechoslovakia; camp life, 1941-1945; hunger; longing; murder of her family; liberation by the Red Army; Rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps

Testimony

Testimony of Marta Reizner Fisher, born in 1925 in Vag Farkasd, Slovakia, regarding the Nove ‎Zamky Ghetto, and Auschwitz and Langenbielau concentration camps Life under the Hungarian regime in 1938; move to Budapest, Hungary in 1941; return to Vag ‎Farkasd in 1942; German occupation in 1944; transfer of Marta and her sisters to a farm for a few ‎weeks; deportation to Sala Ghetto in 1944; transfer to Nove Zamky Ghetto in 1944; deportation to ‎Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 for two months; transfer to a labor camp in Langenbielau, Germany in ‎‎1944; forced labor at Langenbielau sewing uniforms and clothes for...

File Number : 13765

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tzafrir Shteir Sara, born in Bedzin, Poland, in 1930 regarding the Srodula ghetto and regarding the Peterswaldau camp

Childhood before the war; programming aliya to Israel; aliya of the two brothers ; confiscation of family businesses; outbreak of the war; burning the synagogue and houses of Jews; deportation to ghetto; forced labor; murder of the father; "aktions"; deportation of the mother and sister to Auschwitz Birkenau; deportation of the witness with her sister to Peterswaldau; help of the German female commander; liberation by the Russians; escape to the American side; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1946

File Number : 13661

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nancy Vera Rachel Arbel, born in Baktaloranthaza, Hungary, in 1826 regarding deportation to the Auschwitz Birkenau , Plaszow and Reichenbach camps

Testimony

Childhood before the war; coexistence; outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; German occupation in March 1944; deportation to ghetto; mutual help; robbery of property; fictitious marriage for the purpose of rescue; deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to a protected camp; improvement in food and living conditions; transfer back to Auschwitz Birkenau; transfer to Germany for agricultural works and for working in a factory manufacturing planes; liberation by the Russians; rehabilitation of life after the war; aliya to Israel in 1949

File Number : 13703

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943

Testimony

Testimony of Shmaryahu Weiss, born in Papa, Hungary, 1939, regarding his aliya to Israel through a certificate, 1943 Family background. Enlistment of his father to the labor battalions and his work in a forced labor camp, 1942; deportation of his aunt, uncle and their two children from Bratislava, and their arrival in the hometown of witness ,Papa, 1943; attaching the witness and his brother to the certificate with the uncles; approval of aliya to Eretz Israel with consultation and recommendation of Rabbi Meltz in Budapest; crossing to Budapest and departing by train, evening of Yom Kippur 1943; travel to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yuta Margot Herman, born in Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania, 1930 regarding her deportation to Transnistria and life in Mogilev Podolskiy

Testimony

Childhood in a well-to-do traditional family; German cultural influence; attends a local school; Soviet occupation, 1940; rumors of deportation to Siberia and escape; outbreak of the war, June 1941; German invasion; disappearance of her father with additional men; deportation to a ghetto, 11 October 1941; deportation by train to Mogilev Podolskiy, Transnistria; bribing Romanian policemen to prevent further deportation; living with the extended family, 26 people, in one house in the ghetto under crowded conditions; participation in a children's theater; liberation by the Soviets, spring 1944; Return to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidovicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Auschwitz Birkenau, Boizenburg and Ludwigslust camps

Testimony of Sylvia Rachel Davidowicz, nee Weiss, born in Sacalaseni, Romania, in 1929, regarding her experiences in the Baia Mare ghetto and in the Boizenburg, Auschwitz Birkenau and Ludwigslust camps Childhood in Baia Mare; re- annexation of the place to Hungary in 1940; transfer of ownership of the father's flour mill to Hungarians in 1941; the rise of antisemitism; interruption of studies; the German occupation in 1944; deportation to the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; transfer to Boizenburg; life in the camp; transfer to work in a factory manufacturing tanks and planes; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ytic Herscovici, born in Vaslui, Romania, 1917 regarding life in Bucharest and forced labor

Testimony

Residence on the Jewish street, Bucharest; Daily life in the years 1941-1944; forced labor and imprisonment for absence from forced labor; Aliya to Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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